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Kibworth has a number of shops, a community newspaper (The Kibworth & District Chronicle),[1] and since 2002 new shops including a branch of Co-op UK. There were also new houses built on the edge of the village, with plans for 610 more to be built by 2012.[citation needed]

The village snooker team - 'Kibworth Snooker' based at the village Working Mens Club won the Market Harborough snooker league in both 2011 and 2012, enjoying cup successes in both these years also. However recent seasons have not been as fruitful, the team are having a better year so far in the 2014/15 campaign.

In 1270 Walter de Merton, the founder of Merton College, Oxford, bought a large part of the parish of Kibworth Harcourt from Saer de Harcourt, who had been forced to sell the estate following his support for the unsuccessful "barons' rebellion" led by Simon de Montfort. A large part of the parish has remained property of Merton College, Oxford to the present day. There is a stained glass window depicting Walter de Merton in the bell tower of the parish church, St Wilfrid's, and the warden and scholars of the college are joint patrons with the Bishop of Leicester.[citation needed]

A book of the same name was published by Viking (Penguin Books).[5] The series was likened to Who Do You Think You Are? for a whole community. Villagers (Kibworth Improvement Team - KiT) have created a new website[6] and successfully requested a grant of £48,200 from the Heritage Lottery Fund to continue the legacy of the TV series by creating a Kibworth Guide Booklet (heritage trails for Kibworth Harcourt, Kibworth Beauchamp and Smeeton Westerby), several interpretation panels around the three villages, ongoing study materials for the three tiers of local schools and an online Archive (Virtual Museum) to be produced during 2011 and 2012.